/lit/ - Literature

>>15387080

>>14555544
Australian society is very isolated from the world of European literature, as well as the existential realities of living in such an unrooted society (a condition typical of colonies), so that our few great writers will focus either on these uneasy feelings or participate in European trends that only the educated will know. This is why our greatest artists are pessimistic modernists while our best sellers are 'good yarns' like Matthew Reilly.

>>14152532
stow anon reporting in

>>13043350
*dab*

>>13013989

So, what are some 10/10 books that you're certain very few people beside yourself have read?

Pic very related

>>12417225
ehem
>>12417283
lol

>>12390568
>none of them are truly irreplaceable
ahem

>>12363751

dont mine me, just the best australian novel ever written passing through

>>12219813

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>>12130880
hehehehe

>>11946796
>how can a country be so devoid of literary tal-

>>11931468
R A N D O L P H

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>he hasn't read Randolph Stow

>>11908871
>I say we have a bitter heritage, but that is not to run it down. Tourmaline is the estate, and if I call it heritage I do not mean that we are free in it. More truly we are tenants; tenants of shanties rented from the wind, tenants of the sunstruck miles. Nevertheless I do not scorn Tourmaline. Even here there is something to be learned; even groping through the red wind, after the blinds of dust have clattered down, we discover the taste of perfunctory acts of brotherhood: warm, acidic, undemanding, fitting a derelict independence.

One of the most incredible novels I've ever read. Basically an impressionistic prose-poem about the search for meaning in a drought-stricken town in the Australian outback. Probably only an Australian can enjoy this novel completely, since in many ways its about the collapse of meaning in a particularly Australian context. But anyone that appreciates gorgeous prose and void-feels should love this.

>Australian literature is fucking shi-